COMMONPLACE in a Sentence

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45 example sentences for COMMONPLACE, such as:

1. Such actions were regarded as commonplace during the war.
2. Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.
3. He's not at all exciting, in fact he's really rather commonplace.
4. He was commonplace in complexion, in features, in manners, and in voice.
5. It is a commonplace fact that holidays are a major test of any relationship.

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 Meanings and Examples of COMMONPLACE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
commonplace
 a.  ordinary; having no remarkable features
Classic Sentence: (37 in 3 pages)
1  The most commonplace crime is often the most mysterious because it presents no new or special features from which deductions may be drawn.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
2  He spoke in a calm and methodical manner, as though the events which he narrated were commonplace enough.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
3  To Queen Scheherazade the dream might have seemed not far removed from commonplace; and to a girl just returned from all the courts of Europe it might have seemed not more than interesting.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 3 How a Little Sound Produced a Great Dream
4  The extraordinary pitch of excitement that she had reached beforehand would, indeed, have caused her to be influenced by the most commonplace man.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 6 The Two Stand Face to Face
5  Our visitor bore every mark of being an average commonplace British tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
6  It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
7  Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY
8  The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
9  Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he placed his cuttings.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER’S THUMB
10  shrugged his shoulders, and led the way into his own chamber, which was a plainly furnished and commonplace room.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VII. The Adventure of The Reigate Squires
11  When leaving the house she was heard by the coachman to make some commonplace remark to her husband, and to assure him that she would be back before very long.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. The Adventure of The Crooked Man
12  When our visitor was silent Holmes stretched out his hand and took down letter "S" of his commonplace book.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE MISSING THREE-QUARTER
13  The threadbare phrases, the inane expressions of sympathy, the cautious words of a reporter won over to conceal the details of a commonplace vulgar death attacked his stomach.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In A PAINFUL CASE
14  He was commonplace in complexion, in features, in manners, and in voice.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In I
15  He had that dislike of being stared at, which comes on geniuses late in life and never leaves the commonplace.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 5
Example Sentence:
1  We think the key to making this stuff more commonplace is keeping it affordable for everyone.
2  It is commonplace in America to counterbalance a Democratic president with Republicans in the Congress, and vice versa.
3  In giving advice to his son, old Polonius expressed himself only in same platitude; every word out of his mouth was a commonplace.
4  It surprised me when I first discovered that such was his intention: I had thought him a man unlikely to be influenced by motives so commonplace in his choice of a wife; but the longer I considered the position, education.
5  Some scientists believe that soon it will be commonplace for people to travel to the moon.
6  Such actions were regarded as commonplace during the war.
7  He's not at all exciting, in fact he's really rather commonplace.
8  It is a commonplace fact that holidays are a major test of any relationship.